Julie Mehretu (born ) is an Ethiopian American contemporary visual artist, known for her multi-layered paintings of abstracted landscapes on a large scale. Her paintings, drawings, and prints depict the cumulative effects of urban sociopolitical changes.
Julie Mehretu made Empirical Construction, Istanbul to show at the Istanbul Biennial in 2003. She has called it a “portrait of a city,” and the painting pays homage to the Turkish cosmopolis that straddles Europe and Asia across the Bosporus Strait, but it is nowhere pictured as a place.
Contemporary artist Julie Mehretu is known for her large-scale dynamic canvases made in dense layers of paint, ink and pencil, and which are inspired by diverse sources such as architectural drawings.
Julie Mehretu (born , Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is an Ethiopian American abstract painter and printmaker whose canvases combine the structural elements of city grids, architectural drawings, and maps to create three-dimensional compositions representing the modern urban experience.
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Ideas of time, space and place are enmeshed in the work of Julie Mehretu. Drawing is fundamental to her practice, whether in works on paper, painting or printmaking.
Julie Mehretu (born 1970 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is an artist, best known for her densely layered abstract paintings and prints. She is best known for her large-scale paintings that take the abstract energy, topography, and sensibility of global urban landscapes as a source of inspiration.
Julie Mehretu’s works engage us in a dynamic visual articulation of contemporary experience, a depiction of social behavior and the psychogeography of space.
In Julie Mehretu ’s restless canvases, history accumulates on the surface. The Ethiopian American artist is known for abstract paintings, drawings, and prints, and she fills her compositions with layers of marks. Each one draws on sources like maps, art history, spirituality, and global events.